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$0UK Box Office Weekend Report 10th - 12th March 2023: Scream 6 is the top new movie and makes its debut with £3 Million over the weekend Scream VI makes its debut a the top of the UK box office with a £3 Million debut when including Thursday previews, on the Friday to Sunday chart it enters at 2 with £2,4 Million leaving Creed III at the top.
Also making its debut this weekend is 65 which is new at number 3 while outside the top 5 is Champions~2023 at number 9 with £376,816 and Tu Jhoothi Main Makkar at 9 with £194,217.
Highest new movie this weekend
A year after the previous installment of the long running Scream~1997 franchise comes the sixth release in the series which makes its debut with £3 Million which is the second highest of the series.
The sequel movie from the Rocky franchise falls to number 2 this weekend with £2.7 Million giving the movie a nearly £10 Million total.
The latest movie from Star Wars actor Adam Driver makes its debut at 3 with a debut gross of £1.2 Million.
The Puss In Boots sequel is still doing well on the UK box office and 6 weeks on the movie is at number 4 with a weekend gross of £902,867.
Starting its decent down the charts is the Ant-Man sequel movie from the greater MCU which is now 4 weeks on the box office and has a total gross of £18 Million.
As Black Adam spends a second weekend at the top of the UK box office the top new movie of the weekend comes in at number 4 with horror movie Prey For the Devil to celebrate the halloween season.
Also new inside the top 5 is the event movie Coldplay Music of the Spheres Live Broadcast From Buenos Aires while outside the top 5 a 20th anniversary release of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is new at 7 with £454,250.
American hit movie Barbarian~2022 makes a disappointing entry at 8 with £380,812, also Triangle of Sadness is new at 10 with £308,950 and surprisingly celebrated LGBQ comedy BROS is new at 11 with £215,612.
A second weekend at the top for the DC super hero movie starring Dwayne Johnson which takes £3.4 Million, a reasonable 38% drop over last weekend.
In comparison Shazam! from 2019 took £2.1 Million on its second weekend which was also a new unknown IP for Warner Bros., although it didn't have the big star name attached.
The movie has taken £13.4 Million in the UK after its 2 weeks (10 days) of release.
Jumping back up the chart to number 2 this weekend of the children's book adaptation which takes £1.4 Million, an incredible 4% increase over last weekend.
This gives the movie a totak UK gross of £9 Million after 3 weeks of release.
Falling to number 3 this weekend after making its debut at number 2 is the Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson friendship drama which takes £1.2 Million, a 23% drop over its debut.
This gives the Irish drama/comedy a total gross of £4.2 Million in the United Kingdom after 2 weeks of release.
Highest new movie this weekend
Highest new movie of the weekend celebrates the Halloween season as the horror movies directed by Daniel Stamm makes its debut at number 4.
The season peaked early this year with Smile~2022 and Halloween Ends having already made their mark on the box office and this movie makes its debut with £859,717.
Interestingly with halloween on a Monday this year both Smile~2022 and Halloween Ends suffered significant drop this weekend and couldn't capitalise on the season.
Event movies have become a staple of the box office in recent years and for those unable to get to the event Coldplay broadcast their latest concert in theatres starting on Thursday of last week.
Over the weekend the concert pulled in a total gross of £745,541 with repeat showings bound to push it over the Million mark in the coming weeks.
It was a very tight race for the top this weekend as new horror movie Smile~2022 and last weeks number 2 movie Don't Worry Darling battle for the top with the new horror movie just about winning.
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris is also a new movie at number 4 this weekend and Indian movie Ponniyin Selvan: I also makes its debut inside the top 5.
Further down the box office Vikram Vedha~2022 is new at 13 with £137,189 and Richard III: RSC makes its debut at 15 with £60,378.
Highest new movie this weekend
As we roll into October the low budget horror movies start to roll in and first off the mark is this movie from writer/director Parker Finn which narrowly lands at the top this weekend.
The movie has been praised by critics for being a low budget horror which is genuinely scary as the movie takes £1.86 Million.
The movie got a jump on the weekend opening on Thursday which added to the movies opening gross, whereas Don't Worry Darling had to rely on Friday - Monday box office, it would have won the weekend had things all been even.
Remaining at number 2 for a second weekend is the Olivia Wilde suburbia sci-fi/drama which takes £1.83 Million on its second weekend, a fairly good 34% drop for the controversial movie.
The movie has taken £6.1 Millon over its 2 weeks of release in the UK and it should feel a bit cheated not to have been a number 1 movie!
After loosing out last weekend with Ticket to Paradise after that movie got a 3 day head start on the weekend, and then just loosing out to Smile~2022 this weekend after that movie got its Thursday previews added to its weekend gross.
The George Clooney and Julia Roberts starring romantic comedy falls from the top to number 3 this weekend with a gross of £1.3 Million, a large 52% drop over last weekend.
The movie has now taken a total of £5.1 Million in the UK afer 2 weeks of release.
Making its debut at number 4 this weekend is the latest movie from director Anthony Fabian which takes £807,817 on its first weekend of release.
Making its debut at number 5 this Indian movie from director Mani Ratnam has become the highest opening for an Indian movie of 2022 and the highest opening Tamil language movie of all time.
The movie lands with a debut gross of £800,116.
The first trailer for upcoming sequel movie Sonic the Hedgehog 2 which stars Sonic, Two Tails, Knuckles and Jim Carey as Dr. Ivo Robotnik.
Today�s forecast calls for a 100% chance of adventure. Check out the new trailer for #SonicMovie2 and see it only in theatres April 8, 2022. pic.twitter.com/QZMw8lzKxA
— Paramount Pictures (@ParamountPics) December 10, 2021
The trailer was released during The Game Awards which took place in Thursday evening.
The is no story given away in the trailer and is simply a showcase for Jim Carey and reinforces that Knuckles and Two Tails will feature in the movie.
After the controversy over the digital look of Sonic in the original tailer for Sonic the Hedgehog it is reassuring to see that all the characters look like their video game counterparts.
The movie stars once again Ben Schwartz as Sonic with James Marsden alongside Jim Carey and they are joined by Idris Elba as Knuckles and Colleen O'Shaughnessey as Two Tails.
The movie is directed once again by Jeff Fowler and is set for release on 8th April 2022, COVID restriction permitting.
Warner Bros. have announced that the first trailer for the much anticipated The Matrix resurrections will hit this Thursday, 9th September.
The choice is yours. Trailer Thursday at 6AM PT. Visit https://t.co/yX5qbqqNYC #TheMatrixMovie pic.twitter.com/Pme1Sn6lB2
— The Matrix Resurrections (@TheMatrixMovie) September 7, 2021
The movie which stars Keanu Reeves and Carrie Anne Moss reprising their roles from the original trilogy will be released in cinemas and HBO Max on December 22nd 2021.
Anticipation for the movie is high and while the second two movies in the trilogy were not well received The Matrix is still regarded as a ground breaking movie.
Warner bros. have also released a teaser poster for the movie which you can see below, and anyone who is familiar with the first film in the series will connect to it immediately.
Keep an eye on Salty Popcorn on Thursday as well have the new trailer for you as soon as it drops.